SOCA01H3 Chapter 3: chapter 3 for soca01
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culture sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems: enables people to adapt to, and thrive in, their environments. high culture culture consumed mainly by upper classes. mass culture popular culture ; culture consumed by all classes. abstraction ability to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances. symbols ideas that carry meaning: includes components of language, mathematical notations, and signs, allow us to classify experience and generalize from it. cooperation capacity to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong: establishing norms and values. norms generally accepted ways of doing things. values ideas about what is right and wrong. production involves making and using tools and techniques that improve our ability to take what we want from nature.
